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“It’s my power in play.”

“And something else altogether. Stay far away from it. Do you hear me?”

“Yes,” I forced out.

“Good. Now, I believe it is time to attend the debriefing.”

“Sure,” was all I managed.

All of this had been… a lot.

And I hadn’t even had a chance to reconcile even a little bit of it yet.

19

~Vorzyr~

My eyes snapped open and I reacted on instinct, throwing out my hand at the presence I felt right in my personal space.

A grunt sounded, and I focused to see I’d wrapped my hand around Kai’s throat.

He was crouched down right in front of me, and there was a cuff hanging off my other hand, while the key was in his.

I noticed chains on the floor around me, no longer attached to me.

“You drugged meandbound me?” I rumbled, my brain scrambling to play catch up as the world filtered back in bit by bit.

“Yes,” he rasped against my constricting grip.

A whole torrent of emotions slammed into me, warring with one another.

Indignation.

Upset that he’d felt the need to take it there.

Lust at the sight of my hand on him and the way he let me do it without even reacting with a spark of his magic to free himself.

And grief for him that he’d been put in that position where he’d felt the need to subdue me.

It all collided, and then I was leaping at him and driving him onto the stone floor of a… cave? Oh, we were in his lab.

He choked as his back hit the rough floor with jarring force.

I trapped his thighs with my knees and grasped his biceps, pinning him beneath me as I leaned in and growled at his ear, “If you’d wanted to play like that, all you had to do was ask.”

“Well, isn’t this a hot as fuck show to be welcomed home by?”

I swung my head to see Nyx leaning back in a chair at the stone table, his feet kicked up on the top in a rare free space that wasn’t covered in all of the equipment. He was chomping on one of his favorite berry chocolate bars. “Please continue,” he spoke with a mouthful. “Dinner and a show sounds great.”

“It sure does,” Kai uttered.

I tensed at his dangerous tone, and I looked back down at him to see his eyes darkening and that sadistic smirk twisting his lips.

Oh, fuck.

That was all the warning I got before his power ripped out of him—not his hands, but exploding from his body—and into me, blowing me off him in one shot and sending me crashing several feet across the lab into one of the walls.

Talk about a brutal fucking winding impact.